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reviewed The Office. Last Wednesday
posted in Pass The Remote!
The Office
It took time for me to get into The Office. Years, in fact. I had heard all the hype about how great it was ever since it first began airing in 2005, and I had tried to take in the occasional episode. …
reviewed Donkey Kong Land. May 09
posted in The Gaming Hub
Donkey Kong Land
When Donkey Kong Country became a huge, runaway hit for the Super NES (as if it could ever have been a failure), you had to know more was right down the line. Would video game-playing adults like to have …
reviewed Shanghai Knights. May 08
posted in Movie Hype
Shanghai Knights
Getting the most out of Shanghai Knights involves ignoring a few bad storytelling tropes which are played all the up to eleven: The martial artist going out to avenge his dead father, the whole younger …
reviewed The Order (2001). May 07
posted in Movie Hype
the order movie jean claude van damme
It isn't exactly a secret that Jean-Claude Van Damme may be the worst actor to ever walk this planet. But anyone complaining about the performances in a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie is missing the entire …
reviewed Minnesota Wild. April 24
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Minnesota Wild
Team placement really confuses me sometimes. I mean, how does a small market get a team back after losing a first team because it wasn't doing well? How the hell is the Minnesota Wild created when there's …
reviewed Winnipeg Jets. April 20
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Winnipeg Jets
Now, let me see if I have this right, just so I know I'm being completely clear on the subject: Hockey team to Atlanta called the Flames. Flames out of Atlanta to Calgary. Hockey team to Winnipeg …
reviewed Nashville Predators. April 18
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Nashville Predators
The Nashville Predators have at least one thing no other team can claim: Their head coach, Barry Trotz, is currently the longest-tenured head coach in the NHL. He was hired in 1997, just a couple of weeks …
reviewed Florida Panthers. April 17
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Florida Panthers
There's not very much to say about the Florida Panthers. They've mostly been living an existence that's as unfortunate as it is inauspicious. This was after they began with more promise than most expansion …
reviewed Tampa Bay Lightning. April 16
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Tampa Bay Lightning
There's a very popular pastime in the northern United States, especially along the Rust Belt: Moving to Florida! So naturally, if you're the NHL and you're trying your hand at southern expansion, the …
reviewed Roger Ebert. April 14
posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More
Roger Ebert
My all-time favorite Roger Ebert moment didn't have anything to do with movies. There was a certain sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times since the 90′s who was known as a real windbag. This sportswriter …
reviewed Ottawa Senators. April 14
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Ottawa Senators
Sometimes, it's heartening to know the NHL has a vast reservoir of intelligence capable of taking care of obvious little things. Like their You Can Play campaign right now. Or the fact that it knew enough …
reviewed Anaheim Ducks. April 13
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Anaheim Ducks
With the exceptions of the lockouts, what we have here is the most public of the NHL's many embarrassments. It comes off as nothing but a desperate ploy for attention.    Here's what …
reviewed Star Wars: The Clone Wars (movie). April 13
Clone Wars Movie Poster
Star Wars: The Clone Wars works best if you're able to accept it as what it was: The pilot episode for the TV show.     Much as detractors can be loathe to admit it, The Clone Wars …
reviewed San Jose Sharks. April 11
posted in The Puck Drops Here
San Jose Sharks
The first wave of NHL expansions ran from 1967 to 1974. Then there was the merger with the WHA in 1979. Yeah, that was an awful lot of upheaval for a league which survived with all of six teams starting …
reviewed Washington Capitals. April 10
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Washington Capitals
Washington. Oh, Washington. You look at a place like this and you think to yourself, can't these guys do ANYTHING right? Look at Congress, look at the city's crime rate during the 90's, look at the general …
reviewed New Jersey Devils. April 09
posted in The Puck Drops Here
New Jersey Devils
Usually in sports, stories of underdog teams rising to their potential make us all warm and fuzzy inside. Then there's the New Jersey Devils of the NHL. The NHL owes a number of things to the Devils, …
reviewed Colorado Avalanche. April 04
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Colorado Avalanche
You know, I'm now officially curious as to how it is these former WHA teams followed the same rough pattern: The Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques, and Edmonton Oilers all started out …
reviewed Carolina Hurricanes. April 03
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Carolina Hurricanes
You know, there are times when I feel like we arrogant northern hockey fans have got it all wrong about this whole hockey in the south thing started by Gary Bettman. Mostly I think a lot of the Carolina …
reviewed Faith. April 01
posted in WHAT CAN I SAY?
Faith
The plaster cast felt like a glove, and it was about as tough. If I had molded it into a more grabby shape, I probably could have played hockey in it. I couldn't help but make fun of the absurdity of …
reviewed The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Ba.... March 30
posted in Just Baseball
The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth
Imagine - Babe Ruth, The Bambino himself, slipping around on a pair of ice skates trying to give hockey a shot. I have to smile at that. Apparently, The Babe gave ice hockey a shot during his years with …
reviewed Edmonton Oilers. March 28
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Edmonton Oilers
The big cities usually dominate the professional sports markets. If there's a smaller town lucky enough to be blessed with a major league team, it's a given the team is just a bone thrown to appease people …
reviewed Calgary Flames. March 27
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Calgary Flames
Fire and ice. A greater contrast between two elements doesn't exist. It's difficult to fathom any situation where the two of them might be peanut butter and jelly, two great flavors that terse great together. …
reviewed New York Islanders. March 26
posted in The Puck Drops Here
New York Islanders
Among the inescapable facts of life are death, taxes, and New York City sports fans having a serious sense of entitlement. Maybe the New York Islanders can be a little bit of an explanation for that, …
reviewed Premium Rush. March 25
posted in Movie Hype
Premium Rush
Premium Rush won my heart so thoroughly with its opening monologue alone that it would have taken a galactic screwup for me to be completely put off it. Reviewers have made a lot over one small line in …
reviewed Vancouver Canucks. March 24
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Vancouver Canucks
You know the Vancouver Canucks. Oh, you KNOW the Vancouver Canucks. You've been hearing about them everywhere. Robin from How I Met Your Mother is a huge fan. (As is Cobie Smulders, the actress who plays …
reviewed Phoenix Coyotes. March 23
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Phoenix Coyotes
I'm going to take a brief moment right now to do something I don't ordinarily do in my hockey-related musings: Give NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman some of the props he deserves. No, I don't mean that in …
reviewed Philadelphia Flyers. March 21
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Philadelphia Flyers
Yeah, we all know those famous stories revolving around Philadelphia fandom. Aren't these the fans that booed Santa Claus some 40-odd years ago? The guys who cheered when Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael …
reviewed Pittsburgh Penguins. March 20
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Pittsburgh Penguins
All fans of the NHL know that the history of the Pittsburgh Penguins can be nicely and evenly divvied up into two separate eras: The Before Era and The After Era. The turning point is a certain Mario …
reviewed St. Louis Blues Hockey Club. March 17
posted in The Puck Drops Here
St. Louis Blues Hockey Club
There are many things about the St. Louis Blues that bucked the odds. About everything. Things like the fact that they're the only team from the 1967 expansion to have never won the Stanley Cup, even …
reviewed Wreck it Ralph. March 13
posted in Movie Hype
Wreck it Ralph
The object of most video games is very simple: Beat the bad guy who's in charge of all the other bad guys. Now, actually getting to the point in a game where beating the head bad guy is one of the proudest …
reviewed Los Angeles Kings. March 06
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Los Angeles Kings
There are three NHL teams in California. Yes, I know the thought is pretty weird, but then again, so is the state of California, or at least that's how the reputation goes. Amidst the hockey hoopla in …
reviewed Dallas Stars. March 02
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Dallas Stars
I can clearly remember when the Stars were given to Dallas. It was the first time I ever started giving thought to NHL politics, because I was questioning the logic behind it. Hockey in Texas. It seemed …
reviewed Detroit Red Wings. February 28
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Detroit Red Wings
Poor Detroit is on the receiving end of a lot of bad things these days. It's the most impoverished city in the country. It's the most violent city in the country. The housing crisis there is so nasty …
reviewed Toronto Maple Leafs. February 26
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Toronto Maple Leafs
It had been a long time in the making, but in 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs finally did it. Led by Darren Roanoke, they overcame the long odds and won the 14th Stanley Cup of their long and storied history, …
reviewed Faith. February 23
posted in Inspirations
Faith
This is a chapter from my book.    Final Fantasy X    Final Fantasy X was more or less an impulse buy. I was at Media Play one morning, talking to a friend who …
reviewed New York Rangers. February 22
posted in The Puck Drops Here
New York Rangers
New York City is to baseball as Nebraska is to corn. Hockey is a whole other matter.     When the NHL decided it should probably try to place a team in New York City if it was going …
reviewed Total Recall (2012 film). February 22
posted in Forbidden Planet - Sci-Fi Books & Films!
Total Recall (2012 film)
You may have noticed that recently, we've seen new movies from the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Bruce Willis. Things like this are usually coincidental, but after seeing the …
reviewed Boston Bruins. February 16
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Boston Bruins
Sooooo…. Does anyone really feel sorry for "OWAH SPOTS TEAMS-ER ARE-AH MOAH TAH-CHAHED THAN YOUR-AH SPOTS TEAMS-ER!" Boston anymore? Nah, I thought not, especially considering how Boston sports fans were …
reviewed Montreal Canadiens. February 14
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Montreal Canadiens
We all know Canada is, along with Scotland, one of the most important ancestral homes of hockey. It's where the game as we've come to know it today was developed into modern form and perfected. …
reviewed Chicago Blackhawks. February 13
posted in The Puck Drops Here
Chicago Blackhawks
Looking at a list of NHL teams, one can't help but wonder: Where are all the teams in the pacific northwest? It seems like a perfectly natural area for hockey to thrive, after all, being so close to Canada. …
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